One interesting result Eysenck noted in his 1956 work was that in the United States and Great Britain, most of the political variance was subsumed by the left / right axis, while in France, the T-axis was larger, and in the Middle East, the only dimension to be found was the T-axis: " Among mid-Eastern Arabs it has been found that while the tough-minded / tender-minded dimension is still clearly expressed in the relationships observed between different attitudes, there is nothing that corresponds to the radical-conservative continuum.

Eysenck's political views related to his research: Eysenck was an outspoken opponent of what he perceived as the authoritarian abuses of the left and right, and accordingly he believed that, with this T axis, he had found the link between nazism and communism.

Eysenck left Nazi Germany to live in Britain, and was not shy in attacking Stalinist ' communism ' ( which he regarded as representative of communist ideology ), noting the anti-Semitic prejudices of the Russian government, the luxurious lifestyles of the USSR's leaders despite their talk about equality and the poverty of their people, and the Orwellian " doublethink " of East Germany's naming itself the German Democratic Republic despite being " one of the most undemocratic regimes in the world today.

" While Eysenck was an opponent of Nazism, his relationship with fascist organizations was more complex.

Eysenck himself lent theoretical support to the English National Party ( which also opposed " Hitlerite " Nazism ), and was interviewed in the first issue of their journal The Beacon in relation to his controversial views on relative intelligence between different races.

At one point during the interview, Eysenck was asked whether or not he was of Jewish origin before the interviewer proceeded.

Hans Eysenck ( 1916 – 1997 ) was one of the first psychologists to analyze personality differences using a psycho-statistical method ( factor analysis ), and his research led him to believe that temperament is biologically based.

Hans Jürgen Eysenck ( 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997 ) was a German-British psychologist who spent most of his career in Britain, best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he worked in a wide range of areas.

At the time of his death, Eysenck was the living psychologist most frequently cited in science journals.

Hans Eysenck was born in Berlin, Germany, his mother being a film star ( Helga Molander ) and his father a nightclub entertainer who was once voted " handsomest man on the Baltic coast ".

Eysenck was brought up by his grandmother, who was a fervent Catholic, though of Jewish ancestry — a fact he did not know until after her death in a concentration camp ( p. 80 ).

Eysenck ’ s attitude was summarised in his autobiography Rebel with a Cause ( Transaction Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1-56000-938-1 ): " I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

Gauquelin's work was accepted by the notable psychologist and statistician Hans Eysenck among others but later attempts to validate the data and replicate the effect have produced uneven results, chiefly owing to disagreements over the selection and analysis of the data set.

Opposed by his boss, Sir Aubrey Lewis, who wouldn't let him go, he joined the Tavistock group in the army, as a way of getting free, and was replaced by Hans Eysenck.

This was picked up by psychologists such as Hans Eysenck and Gordon Claridge who sought to understand this variation in unusual thought and behaviour in terms of personality theory.

This was conceptualised by Eysenck as a single personality trait named psychoticism.

The former element may have been part of the reason she received support from the psychologist, the late Professor Hans Eysenck, who for a number of years was Director of the Institute of Psychophysical Research which Green founded.

( Eysenck, Sense & Nonsense in Psychology, 1957: 30-31 )

As Hans Eysenck described in his 1956 book Sense and Nonsense in Psychology, Eysenck compiled a list of political statements found in newspapers and political tracts and asked subjects to rate their agreement or disagreement with each.

* Cognitive Psychology By Michael W. Eysenck, Mark T. Keane

According to the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism, scholars have drawn on a 1979 work by social psychologist Michael Billig-" Psychology, Racism, and Fascism "-that identified links between the Institute of Psychiatry and racist / eugenic theories, notably in regard to race and intelligence, as for example promoted by IOP psychologist Hans Eysenck and in a highly publicised talk in August 1970 at the IOP by American psychologist Arthur Jensen.

* Hans Eysenck publishes the book Uses and Abuses of Psychology including a controversial chapter " What is wrong with psychoanalysis ".

Eysenck, along with another contemporary in trait psychology named J. P. Guilford ( 1959 ), believed that the resultant trait factors obtained from factor analysis should be statistically independent of one another — that is, the factors should be arranged ( rotated ) so that they are uncorrelated or orthogonal ( at right angles ) to one another.

While at London, Burt influenced many students, including Raymond Cattell and Hans Eysenck, and toward the end of his life, Arthur Jensen and Chris Brand.

By far the most acrimonious of the debates has been that over the role of genetics in IQ differences ( see intelligence quotient # Genetics vs environment ), which led to Eysenck famously being punched on the nose by a female protestor during a talk at the London School of Economics, as well as bomb threats, and threats to kill his young children .< ref >

* Hans Eysenck, the most-cited living psychologist at the time of his death ( 1997 )

A 1995 book by Hans Eysenck argues that a “ personality trait ” called Psychoticism is central to becoming a creative genius ; and a more recent book by Bill Dorris ( 2009 ) looks at the influence of “ everything from genetics to cultural crises ”, including chance, over the course of development of those who attain greatness.

His defence of Hans Eysenck ( in a review of the biography Playing with Fire ) was published in the journal Intelligence and at http :// bussorah. tripod. com / ulysses. html in 2011.

), The Scientific Study of Human Nature: Tribute to Hans J. Eysenck at eighty, ( pp. 17 – 35 ).

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Hans Eysenck died of a brain tumor in a London hospice in 1997.

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* Hans Jürgen Eysenck ( 1916 – 1997 ), psychology professor

* Michael Eysenck ( b. 1944 ), psychology professor, son of Hans

In general, behaviour therapy is seen as having three distinct points of origin: South Africa ( Wolpe's group ), The United States ( Skinner ), and the United Kingdom ( Rachman and Eysenck ).

In a 1987 study, graphologists were unable to predict scores on the Eysenck personality questionnaire using writing samples from the same people.

" MacDonald's work received positive reviews from a number of other scholars including Hans Eysenck, John Hartung, Harmon Holcomb, Richard Lynn, and Roger D. Masters.

Eysenck advocates that extraverts have low levels of cortical arousal and introverts have high levels, leading extraverts to seek out more stimulation from socializing and being venturesome.

The polymorphism has also been related to personality traits with a Russian study from 2008 finding individuals with the STin2. 10 allele having lower neuroticism score as measured with the Eysenck Personality Inventory.

A further test involved 45 confident astrologers, with an average of 10 years experience and 160 participants ( out of an original sample size of 1198 participants ) who strongly favoured certain characteristics in the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire to extremes.

Variations of the basic ideo-motor or ideo-dynamic theory of suggestion have continued to hold considerable influence over subsequent theories of hypnosis, including those of Clark L. Hull, Hans Eysenck, and Ernest Rossi.

The psychologists Arthur Jensen, Hans Eysenck, Richard Lynn, Linda Gottfredson and Thomas Bouchard have all spoken highly of Rushton's Race, Evolution and Behavior, describing Rushton's work as rigorous and impressive.

Shortly afterward, Hans Eysenck began researching political attitudes in Great Britain.

Despite the difference in methodology, location, and theory, the results attained by Eysenck and Ferguson matched ; simply rotating Eysenck's two factors 45 degrees renders the same factors of Religionism and Humanitarianism identified by Ferguson in America.

According to Eysenck, members of both ideologies were tough-minded.

In this context, Eysenck carried out studies on nazism and communist groups, claiming to find members of both groups to be more " dominant " and more " aggressive " than control groups.

* The theory which Eysenck developed to explain individual variation in the observed dimensions, relating tough-mindedness to Extroversion and Psychoticism, returned ambiguous research results.

In further research, Hans J. Eysenck refined his methodology to include more questions on economic issues.

Psychologist Hans J. Eysenck in explaining the relationship between psychotherapy, behavior therapy and behavior modification defines it in its broadest sense as " the use of psychological therories and methods in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

* Hans Eysenck believed just three traits — extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism — were sufficient to describe human personality.